__/ [ davidof ] on Tuesday 03 October 2006 10:22 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Oh, more details now emerge.
>>
>>
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20061002A9SearchEmbracesLiveFeatures.html
>>
>> A9 Search Embraces Live Features
>>
>> Nails on the coffin....
>
> Watch out Roy, you risk being labelled as some frothing at the mouth
> anti-Microsoft zealot.... oh you already have been :-).
Well, this time I take it personally because I no longer have access to
BetterSearch thumbnails, the A9 toolbar needs to be reinstalled, and so
forth.
And mind the following:
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| Considering the expense Amazon likely incurred in collecting BlockView
| photos, Microsoft must be paying handsomely for Amazon to shut this
| down.
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> I suppose this will boost Live's % in the SE just a little, and when you
> are scrabbling around in single figures every bit helps. I think
> Christopher Sherman of SearchEngineWatch has it right when he said that
> we're past the days of radical innovation where somebody is really going
> to blow past a competitor.
>
> I have to agree with you about Live. Initially it didn't seem too bad
> but the more I look at it the more I realise that there is an impedance
> mismatch between search terms and search results.
The search results are abysmal.
search.microsoft.com: http://tinyurl.com/kzsgb
That's just one example among many.
[looks behind to see if John Bokma is watching... /]
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